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Baz Bamigboye
Columnist/International Editor At Large
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Baz joined Deadline in 2022 after three decades as entertainment columnist for the U.K. Daily Mail, where he covered film, theatre and television in London, New York and Hollywood. Prior to that he was based in New York for three years for The Sun. He covered crime & entertainment for the London Evening Standard; before that he worked for local newspapers, and got his start at a London news agency covering general news, criminal courts and entertainment. He has won a U.K. Press Award for show business reporter of the year and received a special British Independent Film Award for services to indie film. He supports Arsenal FC. On occasion he is known to sing. Please don’t allow him to do this.
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Breaking Baz: ‘Supacell’s Rapman Utilized His Own Superpower To Survive Making Earthshaking Netflix Superhero Drama
EXCLUSIVE: Rapman utilized a superpower of his own — one that didn't require him to don figure-hugging spandex tights and a cape — to survive the setbacks he encountered making the earthshaking new Netflix drama Supacell that began streaming Thursday.
"My superpower is discipline," he…
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Breaking Baz: ‘The West Wing’ Alum Joshua Malina Heads To London For British Stage Debut In Provocative Comedy That Says “The Unsayable” About The War In Gaza
EXCLUSIVE: The West Wing actor Joshua Malina will make his London stage bow in the fall playing a "secular, sarcastic, anti-religious Jew" who says "the unsayable" about Israel in what's being billed as the European premiere of Nathan Englander's adaptation of his 2012 short story What We Talk About When W…
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Breaking Baz: Narges Rashidi & Joseph Fiennes Cast In Under-Wraps BBC Drama About Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Six-Year Iranian Prison Ordeal & Husband’s Tireless Campaign To Free Her
EXCLUSIVE: Narges Rashidi (Gangs of London, The Girlfriend Experience) and Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid's Tale, Shakespeare in Love) are the actors who have been secretly portraying Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker falsely accused of spying and detained in Iran for six years…
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Breaking Baz: Tosin Cole On A Roller Coaster Ride Of Love In London’s West End & Rapman’s Game-Changing ‘Supacell’ Netflix Series
As far as the three young women sitting in row E at London's Bush Theatre were concerned, the name of the character Tosin Cole was playing in Benedict Lombe's "spicy" love story Shifters, wasn't Dre — short for Dream — but "Dreamboat."
It's a double whammy of love, well, sort of, for Cole (Till, Bob M…
Ian McKellen Says He’s “Hugely Indebted” To Medical Staff As He Recovers From Fall & Is ‘Looking Forward To Returning To Work” – Update
2nd UPDATE, EXCLUSIVE: Ian McKellen, the celebrated actor-knight revealed to Deadline via a statement that he's "hugely indebted" to medical staff from the UK's National Health Service for treating him after he fell from the stage during a performance of Player Kings at the Noel Coward Theatre in London's…
Breaking Baz: Sam Mendes Tony-Award Winning ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Makes Fourth Return To London Stage After Hit Drama Plays To Half A Million Worldwide Audience
Sam Mendes is bringing back his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning blockbuster production of The Lehman Trilogy for a fourth run in London.
It's quite a thing to bring the play, considered a modern classic, back into central London when it just played a 16-week season at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, running…
The Partnership: How Nicole Kidman Convinced A Hesitant Lulu Wang To Take The Helm In Prime Video’s ‘Expats’
Lulu Wang remembers Nicole Kidman spiraling down a psychological rabbit hole in Jonathan Glazer's 2004 dream-like masterpiece Birth where a woman believes that a 10-year-old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband. "That's my favorite," Wang declares, much to Kidman's delight — and surprise. During…
Breaking Baz: DreamWorks’ ‘The Wild Robot’ Set To Wow Audiences At Annecy Animation Festival & How Lupita Nyong’o Discovered The Movie’s Voice Of Kindness
EXCLUSIVE: A key principle underpinning DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot — directed and written by Chris Sanders, produced by Jeff Hermann and starring Lupita Nyong’o as the voice of Roz the robot — is that kindness matters, say the filmmakers.
Based on Peter Brown's 2016 bestseller, the movie…
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Breaking Baz: ‘Expats’ Star Ji-Young Yoo On Her Career And Being “Happy” To Be Thrown In “Deep End” Shooting With Lulu Wang & Nicole Kidman
EXCLUSIVE: Ji-young Yoo says she was thrown in at "the deep end of things" when she shot Prime Video’s limited series Expats, playing the central figure of Mercy, a character around whom everyone else orbits.
"I was thrown in," she says laughing. "But it's really been a whole super swim," she says of…
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Breaking Baz: David Hare, British Playwright & Filmmaker, Casts An Unsparing Eye Over The UK General Election & Reveals He Is Working On A Drama About “The Great Question Of The 21st Century”
EXCLUSIVE: David Hare, one of the UK’s foremost playwrights and a double Oscar nominee, is in an unsparing mood about the state of UK politics. This comes as leaders of the country's two major parties parry in the cut and thrust of the July 4 general election.
Hare's view, he tells Breaking Baz, is…
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Breaking Baz: ‘Sherwood’s’ James Graham Hits West End With Alan Bleasdale’s ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’, Talks Europe-Set TV Thriller & Updates On Soccer Drama ‘Dear England’
EXCLUSIVE: James Graham sets a mental timer of strictly 45 minutes for a conversation that will encompass tonight's gala opening at London's National Theatre — en route to a run at the Garrick Theatre — of his sublime stage adaptation of Alan Bleasdale's landmark 1982 television drama Boys from the Blackst…
Breaking Baz: Zendaya Keeps The Spotlight On Tom Holland As He Makes His Shakespeare Debut In Modern-Dress ‘Romeo & Juliet’ In London’s West End
Not sure that I would equate Tom Holland and Zendaya with the same level of triple-A star firepower as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, but the last time I witnessed sheer frenzied pandemonium outside the Duke of York's Theatre was when Taylor went to see Burton read excerpts from Dylan Thomas' Under M…
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